Alerts

2011

New York, March 3, 2011--A court in Angola's southwestern province of
Namibe sent a journalist to prison today without due process over his coverage
of a sexual harassment scandal that implicated the province's top judicial
official, according to local journalists and news reports.

Judge Manuel Araujo sentenced Armando José Chicoca, a freelancer who reports for U.S. government-funded broadcaster Voice of America (VOA) and private Angolan newspapers such as Folha 8, Agora, and O Apostolado, to one year in prison and a fine of 200,000 kwanza (US$2,100), according to news reports.

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New York, March 3,
2011--Police threats to revoke foreign journalists' visas and require
advance permission for newsgathering are disturbing new efforts to restrict
reporting on protests in China, the Committee to Protect Journalists said
today.

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New York, March 3,
2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned for the safety ofa
Cameroonian editor who is being prosecuted in connection with a leaked official
document, according to local journalists and news reports.

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Bangkok, March 3, 2011--The stabbing of Banjir Ambarita, a freelance reporter who frequently contributes to Indonesia's English-language daily the Jakarta Globe, appears to be related to his reporting linking police to a prisoner sex abuse scandal, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

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New York, March 2, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Equatorial Guinea's censorship of coverage of events in North Africa, the Middle East, and Ivory Coast. A state radio presenter's reference to Libya during a live radio program on Friday led censors to abruptly force the journalist off the air and order an indefinite suspension from the country's tightly monitored national airwaves, according to local journalists and news reports.

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New York, March 2, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply disturbed by the recent actions of Ukrainian authorities that threaten to upend progress in the 10-year-old investigation into the September 2000 abduction and murder of independent journalist Georgy Gongadze, at left. The Kyiv Court of Appeals ruled today to reject a second appeal by Myroslava Gongadze, the journalist's widow, against the prosecutorial downgrading of the status of the murder from a contract killing to a "killing on verbal command."

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New York, March 2, 2011--The
Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Panamanian government to allow
two Spanish journalists and human rights activists who were expelled to return
to the country. The journalists were covering and documenting an indigenous
demonstration on Saturday when they were detained by authorities and accused of
"disrupting public order" according to an official statement.

New York, March 1, 2011--Supporters behind incumbent Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo and rival Alassane Ouattara are targeting rival partisan media oulets and their journalists in an increasingly bloody struggle for power, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

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New York,
February 28, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the ongoing
attempts of governments in the Middle East to censor news coverage of protests.
In Yemen, men stormed the Journalists' Syndicate on Saturday, and in Iraq,
journalists demanded apologies from the military after a crackdown
on the press on Friday, and Baghdad Operations Command
offered the apologies on Sunday.